What will he do with them all you may ask? They'll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.

What will he do with them all you may ask? They'll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.

What will he do with them all you may ask? They'll be shipped to Terracycle, a New Jersey based company that specializes in hard-to-recycle waste.

With the RightCycle program, items are deposited in either a RightCycle collection box or in the client’s own boxes. Full boxes are assembled onto pallets and picked up by Kimberly-Clark Professional recycling partner TerraCycle. After the products are collected, they are turned into raw materials and used to create useful, eco-friendly consumer products, such as plastic Adirondack chairs and benches, bulk plastics and other items.

During their research, students discovered a company, Terra Cycle, who could recycle the cigarette butts and proposed it as a solution during their presentation to the Green Team. This initiative, creativity and passion for sustainable solutions led to President Nancy Carriuolo and representatives from the Green Team presenting the class with the college’s Green Team Award for Sustainability during the past week’s Earth Day festivities.

Whitemarsh Elementary Students Teach Older Kids About Upcycling

A embalagem do salgadinho pode virar guarda-chuva e do suco pode virar mochila. Com a ajuda de grandes grupos, a TerraCycle transforma embalagens em novos produtos, evita aterros sanitários lotados, e ainda aumenta a consciência ambiental dos consumidores.

Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day last week with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are collecting unwanted or no longer useable iPads, iPods, cameras, calculators and more through the end of the school year. For each item collected, Terracycle rewards the school with points that can be redeemed for a monetary donation to a charity or nonprofit organization. The children will vote on where the funds will go. “One option may be to use the funds to create new recycling programs here at the school,” said Judith Salisbury, Lower School Science Teacher. Renata Bodner (Ethan ’25) of Eatontown, came up with the idea for the project when she stumbled across the Terracycle website online. “We all try to do our part by leaving our recyclables at the curb, or even bringing them to a recycling center or other drop-off sites, but [Terracycle] allows us to go a step further and recycle items that a town may not take,” she says. “And even better, everybody involved in it wins.” Many items can be recycled, so why focus on electronics? “A lot of people don’t think about recycling their electronics, but they are actually quite useful,” explained Salisbury. Electronics are also worth more points from Terracycle compared with bottle caps and juice pouches, for example, and cleaner to store on campus. Local families can support the project by sending in their recyclable electronics until the end of the school year.

Ranney’s Lower School kicked off Earth Day during the week of April 22, 2013 with a new recycling project that focuses on electronics. In collaboration with Terracycle, which provides free waste-collection programs for hard-to-recycle materials, students and their families are collecting unwanted or no longer useable iPads, iPods, cameras, calculators and more through the end of the school year.